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DESIGNED TO ACCOMPANY 

lENDRICK'S "BRIEFHISTORY 

OF THE EMPIRE STATE", 

BY 

L. A. TOEPP, 

PRINCIPAL OF HONEOYE UNION SCHOOL. 



PUBLISHED BY 

F. B. SHORT, 

HONEOYE, N. Y. 

To whom all communications must be addressed. ^fZZJa 
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Copyright, 1894, by L. A. TOEPP. 






Historical Recreations In the 

History of the 

Empire S.tate, 

DESIGNED TO ACCOMPANY HENDRICK's 
^ ^BRIEF HISTORY OF THE EMPIRE STATE. " 



"The Idea is an Excellent one." — C. W. Bardeen, 
Publisher- of Hendrick's "Brief History of the Empire State," 
Syracuse, N. Y. 



1. Who said ^'The people should have 
liberty for no thought but how to pay their 
taxes" ? 

2. What lands were reported as ''the 
most beautiful that eye ever saw" ? 

3. Who skulked in a saw-mill while his 
soldiers fought ? 

4. What white man probably first stood 
on the soil of New York ? 

5. What arguments did Stuyvesant ad- 
vance against popular suffrage ? 

6. What were ' 'clippers" ? ' 'olykeoks" ? 

7. What was the first constitution which 
was ' 'the product of America" ? 



8. Who were some of the leading spir- 
its on the French side of the French and In- 
dian War? 

9. Describe a Dutch house . 

10. What was the first building erected 
on Lake George ? 

11. How did it happen that Philadelphia 
instead of New York became the home of 
Benjamin Franklin? 

12. What was Zenger's paper called ? 

13. When did the question of a pole or 
no pole become one of importance in the 
colony? 

14. How many times was the pole cut 
down ? 

15. What was the Dutch name for the 
governor? magistrates? aldermen? sheriffs? 
secretaries ? 

16. Why did the early Dutch settlers of 
New York have so little trouble with the 
Indians ? 

17. Name the three governors of the ear- 
lier times whom you consider the best fitted 
to govern. 

18. Who was the first minister ? The first 
school-teacher ? 



19. Relate several incidents in early New 
York history that go to show that the people 
are more civilized now than formerly . 

20. What does the seal of your country 
represent ? 

21. Name three lakes bearing Indian 
Names . 

22. What part of the state was settled by 
the Dutch ? 

23. Name three places which show a Dutch 
origin by their names . 

24. What did each of the following men 
do for New York : Corlear, Kieft, Derries , 
and Andros? 

25. How did New York receive its name ? 
Albany ? Hudson River ? 

26. Who was the first printer ? 

27. Name and locate three forts . 

28. Who discovered the Hudson River ? 

29. In what vessel did he come ? 

30. What was his fate ? 

31. Tell what you consider are the two 
most cruel stories in New York History . 

32. Tell the story of the Jesuits . 

33. What was the ' ^Negro Plot" ? 

34. Name as many rivers as you can whose 



names are of Indian origin . 

35. What Institution was organized in 
1754? 

36. How long was New York under Dutch 
rule? 

37. What were the faults of each of the 
Dutch governors ? 

38. Was any fighting done in your coun- 
ty during the French and Indian War ? 

39. Why did the French covet the Hud- 
son valley ? 

40. Who said ^ 'The place is our own and 
our own we will have" ? 

41. Who was governor during the French 
and Indian War ? 

42. What was the first building erected 
on Lake Ontario ? 

43. Who was the first Democratic gov- 
ernor ? 

44. Who was the first English governor ? 

45. What became of Nichols ? 

46. What titles had the Duke ? 

47. Who was the first Dutch governor ? 

48. What were the ''Dukes Laws" ? 

49. What was the first victory of the Col- 
onists over the English ? 



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50. When were slaves first brouglit into 
the state ? 

51. Name some of the cities which grew 
up around forts . 

52. Which was the bloodiest battle of the 
Revolution ? 

58. Who were the Green Mountain Boys ? 

54. Why were May and Block Islands so 
named ? 

55. Tell something of the Dutch punish- 
ments ? 

56. What was the first representative 
body called? and under whose rule did it 
meet? 

57 What was New York's strength and 
weakness in war? 

58. What were the three great river val- 
leys of New York State ? 

59. What colonial general was an outlaw ? 

60. Name a favorite meeting place of the 
^'Sons of Liberty"? 

61. By whom and under what circumstan- 
ces was the following expression used : ^ ' I re- 
joice that I am the first to suffer for liberty 
since the commencement of our glorious 
struggle " ? 



62. The effigy of what governor waa 
bnrned with that of the Devil ? 

63. How did the colonista treat the tones 
after the war ? 

64. How did each of the following coun- 
ties receive its name ? Clinton ? Erie ? Onta- 
rio ? St. Lawrence ? Albany ? Kings ? Queens ? 
Niagara ? 

65. What has been the average rate of 
increase in population in this state from 1700 
to the present time ? 

66. What was the size of Buffalo in 1800? 

67. What events gave rise to the feder- 
alist and anti-federalist parties ? 

68. In what presidential election did New 
York take no part ? 

69. What candidate for the office of gov- 
ernor submitted calmly to a decision seating 
his opponent against a plain majority of the 
votes ? 

70. What counties bear Indian names 1 

71. Who said he would ^ ^cram the stamps 
down the people's throat vdth the point of 
his sword" ? 

72. Who was ' ^Brother Quidder" ? 

73. What governor was elected by the 



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largest majority? 

74. What great men has your county 
produced ? 

75. What governors were afterwards pres- 
idents? 

76. What vice-presidents were from New 
York ? 

77. What was the ^'Albany Regency"? 

' 78. -" What did each of the following cen- 

' tennial celebrations commemorate ; The one at 

Oriskany? Saratoga? Elmira? Cherry Valley ? 

79. For what massacres has New York 
been noted? 

80. What counties produce large quanti- 
ties of butter and cheese ? cotton and woolen 

' goods ? paper ? leather ? 

81. Trace the growth of the schools . 
82.-85. What were ^^the Clintonians" ? 

*The Bucktails"? ^*The Snappers"? '^Anti- 
snappers" ? ^ 'Mugwumps" ? ' ^Dandelions" ? 
' 'Burrites" ? ' 'Stalwarts" ? ' 'Half -breeds" ? 
' 'Dutch" ? ' 'Anti-renters" ? ' 'Liberals" ? 
"Swallow-tails"? 

86. What political rings have there been 
in New York ? 

87. Who said: "If any man dares to haul 



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down the American flag, shoot him on 
the spot"? 

88. What party died out because it dared 
not take sides ? 

89. What governors have been the best 
friends of the schools ? 

90. Trace the growth of democratic ideas 
as pointed out by the constitutions framed by 
the different constitutional conventions . 

91. What was meant by the "Virginia 
Dynasty" ? 

92. What was the first paper ? 

93. Who were the "Sons of Liberty"? 

94. Locate three places where prominant 
battles have been fought and give generals on 
each side, cause and result . 

95. What was the trip of the first steam- 
boat? 

96. How did Lake Champlain receive its 
name? 

97. Which is the longer, the Hudson 
River or the Erie Canal ? 

98. What governors died in office ? 

99. What uncle and nephew held the of- 
fice of governor nearly half a century ? 

100. What great riots have occurred in 



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our state ? 

101. What is the great seal of New York 
State? 

102. What governors have been the most 
popular ? 

103. Who were the ^ ^bachelor governors"? 

104. State to what party each governor 
belonged ? 

105. What celebrated statesman of New 
York was killed in a duel ? 

106. How many counties have been named 
from rivers ? From lakes ? 

107. When was the Erie Canal opened ? 

1 08. Who worked hard to put it through ? 

109. To what party did DeWitt Clinton 
belong? Horace Greeley? Alexander Hamil- 
ton ? Roscoe Conklin ? Samuel J. Tilden ? 

110. How is the death penalty inflicted ? 

111. With what is the name of Susan B. 
Anthony connected ? 

112. Relate some anecdote or state some 
interesting fact concerning Horace Greeley , 
Roscoe Conklin . 

1 13. Who was the ' father of New France"? 

114. What was Champlain's '^fatal blun- 
der"? 



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115. What was the Dutch name given to 
the Delaware ? To the Connecticut ? To the 
Hudson ? 

116. What were the mistakes of the pa- 
troon system ? 

117. Where is Stuyvesanfs Tomb? 

118. By what name did the Indians long 
call the governor of New York ? 

119. Who was the ^ ^Universal Friend" ? 
Who were the ^'Shakers"? The ^ ^Millerites" ? 

120. What Prohibitionist was elected gov- 
ernor ? 

121. What panics have we had and which 
was the worst of them all? 

122. New York leads the world in the 
production of what? In the manufacture of 
what ? In the magnitude of what public 
works ? In what natural cenery ? 

123. With what enterprise is the name of 
F. B. Morse associated ? Peter Cooper ? John 
Jacob Aster ? Alexander T. Stewart ? Horace 
Greeley ? James Gordon Bennett ? Henry J. 
Raymond ? Thurlow Weed ? Robert Fulton ? 
DeWitt Clinton ? 

124 Who were the ^'Mohawks"? 

125. On what occasion and by whom was 



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the following prophecy uttered: '^The mur- 
ders in which you have shed so much innocent 
blood will yet be avenged on your own head" ? 

126. Was the prophecy fulfilled ? 

127. Of what people was it said: '^They 
brought over with them the liberal ideas and 
homely virtues and honest maxims of their 
country" ? 

128. Who was ' ^Mynheer" ? The ' ^Frow"? 

129. Who was the ' ^Dominie" ? 

130. Who were the ^ ^Burghers" ? 

131. What ' 'Blue Laws" had New York ? 

132. What did the Dutch call their coins ? 

133. How many original counties were 
there ? 

134. What Colonial governor was made 
drunk with wane in order to obtain his signa- 
ture to a death warrant ? 

135. Whom did the Indians style * 'Great 
Swift Arrow" ? 

136. Who said ' 'We must surrender once 
a year" ? 

137. When was there a tax upon bach- 
elors ? 

138. What was the tax? 

139. Who said ' 'The colonists are infants 



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at their mothers breast, but such as will wean 
themselves when they become of age" ? 

140. What city grew up around Fort 
Schuyler ? Around Fort Presentation ? 

141. To what was the name ' The Fields" 
given? 

142. Where is Spuyten Duyvil? Hell 
Gate? 

143. Who acted as colonial governor five 
times ? 

144. What was the *^Great Meeting" ? 

145. What society secured the emancipa- 
tion of slaves in New York ? 

146. What was thought to be ' 'the Devil 
on his way to Albany in a saw-mill" ? 

147. Mention two ministers of New York 
state who have gained a world-wide rep- 
utation ? 

148. Tell the story of the Anti-War par- 
ty in New York state . 

149. What New York candidate for the 
presidency became insane during his canvas ? 

150. Name all the third pai*ties mention- 
ed in New York history . 

151. What paper exposed the 'Tweed 

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